At the same time, DiMotto found that the board is prohibited under state law from infringing on administrative functions, specifically increasing an employee's pay within a range and promotions to higher job classifications.

This year, the Maccabiah Games have run July 4 to 18 and most of the 36 sports offered for the Open Division — the classification each country’s top athletes participated in — took place in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

The star's mistaken classification occurred in part because it was detected by transit—the general method for finding exoplanets—where one body passes in front of another and dims some of the light from the background object.

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